Time quietly moved on to Thursday.
The morning mist had yet to fully lift, but students were already trickling along the stone paths on their way to class.
The school had completely cut off access to the backend data, and the feeling of having an all-seeing eye over the entire situation collapsed in an instant.
Akiyama Shin's original plan had been to proceed gradually, piecing together a map of each year's strengths from bits of information gathered over time. But the school's sudden intervention had shattered that composure, forcing him to speed things up.
Still, every cloud had a silver lining. Perhaps the school meant to compensate him, or perhaps it had other reasons, but it had transferred one million Personal Points directly into his account.
Watching the figures tick across his Terminal, Akiyama Shin raised an eyebrow, surprise stirring within him.
He really hadn't expected the school to respond like this.
Besides, he had already prepared a fallback plan.
That was the OAA System, a comprehensive ability-assessment system that had recently been generating a lot of buzz on the Campus Network.
Having spent the past few days browsing the campus forums, Akiyama Shin had naturally noticed the discussions.
Quite a few upperclassmen were using the system to predict who would hold S-Rank and A-Rank within their year.
Their words were full of praise for the system's authority.
The system was fully available to second-years and above, evaluating students across multiple dimensions, including academics, physical ability, and social skills. It was widely considered a measure of a student's overall ability.
In particular, it was the best reference for academic performance.
Unfortunately, first-year students hadn't yet been added to the system's database, so he couldn't access it directly.
When the bell rang for the last class of the afternoon, the classroom